Waste Management Mack LE Amrep Octo ASL 106216
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ส.ค. 2024
- While most of Waste Management's fleet in Santa Maria is relatively uniformed, they had a couple oddball garbage trucks running around. This ex-Anderson Rubbish truck was one of their neat units that was being used as a spare back in 2021. When GI Industries bought Anderson, the initial plan was to have the Octos replace the aging Freightliner Condor Octos at both Atascadero and Santa Maria. For various reasons, only 2 Octos made their way up to the Central Coast, and AWA was quick to send this truck over to Santa Maria after a short time of using it. From what the driver said, the controls on this truck were backwards from the usual Amrep he drove, which is why he struggled to operate in a smooth manner. Despite that issue, I wanted to grab some video with how good the truck sounded, and also with the more unique blue Cascades that populate the area. I've only seen blue Cascades in this color in Northern California for the most part. Definitely neat how HSS chose to not only use Cascades in this shade of blue, but also put the iconic HSS logo on them too. Unfortunately there weren't any Zarns in this area but I would have loved to see this truck picking them up. Also a big fan of the aluminum rims on this truck - by the time GI put aluminum rims on their Octos, I barely had a chance to grab pictures of them, let alone video.
Thanks to the driver for making this video possible and a big thanks to Eli for showing me around!
I really enjoyed watching this truck pick up those old blue cascades. Truck definitely sounded really good! Very much enjoyed this!
Huge fan of the blue cascades for sure. Thanks bro!
Awesome! This truck looks sharp and sounds great! Nice video.
Thanks!
Nice video 👍🏻👍🏻 glad Your started to post more videos!
Cool bro i love that!
I feel bad for the driver because of the massive learning curve they had to go through trying to re-train themselves to operate the backwards controls on this truck, that must have been a headache and a half.
What backward controls?
@@nokia3750 Did you not read the description? The arm and gripper controls are backwards compared to the truck this driver normally operates
@@noahater5785DUHHH I didn’t feel like it
Awesome vids! I have a question that I havent ever found the answer to, the WM trucks i've seen have 2 backup alarms, one thats "beep beep beep" yknow, the standard one, but then theres the other alarm, that goes "blelelep, blelelep, blelelep" What is the difference between the two? I always figured it had to do with the arm being in motion or something but don't really know.
That genuinely might be the smoothest arm i’ve ever seen on one of these older octo units. Controls being backwards has to be trippy as heck after operating Amreps the regular way for years. I wonder why Anderson (I assume they did it) programmed it that way. Is the backwards programming on the rockers? I have seen that some companies have different joystick programming on their Amreps compared to WM, so I guess rockers would be easy to do backwards too, just odd. Good stuff as usual man
Yeah not sure why they were backwards but definitely surprised me too. I noticed in one clip he was operating with his left hand instead of the right so I'm curious if that's what he meant by "backwards" in terms of control placement. Thank you!
Awesome video Aaron. Miss this truck. Is it still around?
Thanks! Not sure but hopefully it is
Great video, love these ex Anderson units. Do they still run this over there?
Thanks! Need to find out on this truck in particular
i gotta check that area out! 0:56 in the distance, is that a 96 blue wmx cascade?
also this unit is very new looking! very cool that they deciced to paint it instead!
@@WMAC_Master good looking truck for sure! Thank you
how are the controls backwards? the left is to move the arm back and forward middle is for grippers last is to dump the bins